Because expertise, love, and care cut across all human endeavor, and noticing those things across domains can be a life affirming kind of shared experience.

Perfect comment, but it’s very funny to me that you even needed to say it. Some folks on here talk like moon people who have never met humans before.

Thanks I’m neurodivergent how could you tell?

So am I, but I don’t use it as an excuse to put down other’s interests.

Favorited. This will be a timeless comment for me, and will remind some perspective to appreciate things I might not be otherwise familiar with, and thereby care about.

It's unclear to me what point you are making.

Google's military and Apple's police force are surely up to the task.

This sarcasm is not constructive, and it’s only making yourself look bad. Soft power is a thing, obviously.

They’ve abducted president of another country in broad daylight, what soft power are you talking about?

I’m talking about what soft power Apple or Google could hypothetically leverage.

It was determined by voters. Pretty sure that's over now too.

It's not too late. But it will be too late as soon as too many people think it's too late.

That is how software releases generally work. AFAICT this is not a bug with broad impact or security implications.

I guess thats arguable, a memory leak can make a system unpleasant to use although I accept it can be solved by repeatedly restarting the offending app.

Single-asterisk for bold is not Markdown. I believe Slack calls their thing "markup". I also find it annoying. So annoying that I just learned Slack's keyboard shortcuts instead.

Slack messages are formatted in mrkdwn <https://docs.slack.dev/messaging/formatting-message-text/#ba...>. Completely unrelated to Markdown, superficial resemblance only. If there were trademarks in play you’d absolutely attack them for trademark infringement.

But what you type isn’t even mrkdwn, but rather an input mode that supports most of the same syntax.

If any Bundler replacement isn't using Minimal Version Selection, I'm not interested.

Unfortunately the comment you're responding to is a joke. HTTP status code 418 is a joke response: "I'm a teapot".

Blanket statements like this are unhelpfully tribal. Ruby has its uses, and underpins one of the most successful (and cloned) MVC frameworks of all time. But yeah, Python received the attention of data scientists early on and now it's a lingua franca of sorts in that domain. Since AI is so hot right now that makes Python seem superior, but really that's just contingency.

If you're going to make claims, support them.

Now do every other common term in software engineering.

Someone once told me they built a trampoline and I show up in their backyard and there’s nothing.